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Chavez Sends Messages from Cuba

After nearly two weeks of silence recovering Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez sent public messages from Cuba via Twitter on Friday to congratulate his country’s army on their anniversary and let the population know he is with them.

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Rep. Flake Holds OFAC Accountable

Long time advocate for restoring the rights of all US Americans to travel to Cuba, Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Arizona) successfully added an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2012 Appropriations bill that would require the Office of Foreign Assets Control, the regulatory body that enforces the Cuba travel ban, to: provide a report on pending license applications related to education exchanges.

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Havana Weather for June 23-29

We will be under the influence of a wedge of weak pressure gradients. High daytime temperatures together with atmospheric humidity will act to promote strong convective actions in the afternoons which will cause isolated rains until the early evening hours throughout the coming week. Maximum temperatures will fluctuate between 32°C (90°F) and 33°C (91°F).

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Cuban Young People for Diversity

The idea emerged spontaneously, and then snowballed. In just a few months, more than 100 people in Cuba became part of a young people’s social network for diversity, in a society where machismo and homophobia are seen as natural.

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Cuba Reforms Hitting Women Hard

Women in Cuba are gaining ground in public life and earn the same wages as men. But the gender gap in the workplace is still a challenge for women, who are finding the odds more heavily stacked against them as the government of Raul Castro adopts economic reforms aimed at “updating” the country’s socialist system.

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Havana Weather for June 16-22

We will be under the influence of weak pressure gradients that will be moving toward the east of a high pressure area that on Wednesday, June 15, was in the north-eastern part of the Gulf of Mexico. Over the period we expect partially cloudy days, clouding over in the afternoons as a result of daytime heating. The maximum temperatures will fluctuate between 30°C (86°F) and 31°C (88°F). The minimum temperatures will be around the 24°C (75°F).

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Cuba Cinema Award to Eslinda Nuñez

Cuba’s coveted National Cinema Award for 2011 was received by actress Eslinda Nuñez at the headquarters of the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC) in the capital. Some of her most memorable roles were in the films Lucia (1968), Memories of Underdevelopment (1968), Cecilia (1981), Amada (1983).

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